It’s a tip smackdown.
A TikTokker named Saydie — who goes by @realslimsaydie online — revealed what it really means when restaurant customers leave their checks face-down.
“Anyone else get so scared when the check is face-down?” she captioned the viral TikTok video with more than 1.2 million views.
She then explained: “They left the tip slip face down. You know what that means …
“Let’s see if I’m right. I haven’t looked at it yet.”
Saydie then dramatically counts down before flipping the check over to peek at how much of a tip she was left.
The gratuity is revealed to be $15 on a $93 bill — about 15% — which she admits is “not the worst, not the best.”
In her video, she implies that customers who leave their check face-down usually don’t leave a big tip.
A standard tip for servers in sit-down restaurants is about 15% to 20% of the bill before tax, depending on the quality of their service, according to NerdWallet.
However, most Americans are overwhelmed and annoyed with today’s tipping culture and “tipflation.”
Nearly three in five adults have negative feelings about tipping — and the resentment only grows with age — according to a survey conducted by personal finance comparison site Bankrate.
“Older Americans seem to have the most sticker shock about the rising cost of tipping, yet they’re still much more frequent tippers than Gen Zers and millennials,” Ted Rossman, Bankrate senior industry analyst, said to USA Today. They also tend to add on a higher percentage.
Older generations may be the most fed up with being expected to tip well everywhere, but that doesn’t mean they don’t do it. Meanwhile, good luck getting a good tip from Gen Z or male patrons.
Only 35% of Gen Zers who go to sit-down restaurants said they always leave a tip, compared with 56% of millennials, 78% of Gen Xers and 86% of baby boomers.
A majority of people — 64% — said the biggest factor that influenced how much they decided to tip was the quality of service. Only about 10% say they always tip the same amount regardless of the quality of service — but some scoundrels try to avoid tipping no matter what.
A waitress of 10 years using the pseudonym Sophia Jenson recently shared one common way that customers avoid leaving a tip.
She revealed in a Daily Mail essay that when the dining experience is over, some customers will ask for a service charge to be removed, then pay in cash so they don’t have enough money left for a tip and pretend they had bad service, or dramatically fumble through their bag for spare change before giving up.
As customers grow frustrated with tipping culture, servers have to go above and beyond to get their cash — the women are working it.
Female restaurant workers from across the country previously told The Post they have noticed an increase in tips when talking with a Southern accent, dyeing their hair blond, wearing their hair down, applying plenty of shiny lip gloss, having their nails manicured and strutting around in booty or biker shorts.
